Wow! What a month. Three final plumbing inspections.  We passed, the inspector was very fair but very strict. You the taxpayer should be extremely pleased with the value you’re getting from him. He did come by the job site (Ba) the day before the final inspection to give us some notes on what to do to pass. That was very big of him. I really appreciate that. So as soon as he signed off on the work I was allowed to call for the framing inspection.

Well… That inspector was not as nice. or fair. He looked at the wood frame walls Julia and I made and told me to bolt them to the brick walls and to hire a deputy inspector to watch that being done. We did and the deputy inspector told us to hire an engineer to design the work. We did and he told us to use 5/8 bolts 8 inches deep every 16 inches, and cemented with epoxy (50 dollars per tube) . So we did. All that took 8 days and $2,000.

My little wait station now has better earthquake retrofit than a four-story children’s hospital.

But the worst part is that when I called for a re-inspection we got a totally different inspector!!! The new one was nice and did not even look at all of the work we had done.

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

But we passed and now can apply the finish coats. I celebrated by installing a toilet! Ba now has a toilet!